Do you ever wonder what the world would be like if the number of hours of human effort that had been poured into the marketing industry to encourage dissatisfaction and aquisitiveness has been devoted to encouraging connection, compassion and creativity instead?
It turns out that hitting milestones like getting a proper job and getting married didn't actually make me feel like a Proper Adult. What has made me a Proper Adult was looking up the Christmas holiday bin days in advance and putting them in my calendar. You may all admire me now. #UKBinChat
And lo, a decree was issued from upon high, that adults across the land must travel back to the place where they were born to fix their parents' computers.
Many years ago when I was a student my landlady told me she had a tradition of reading #TerryPratchett's Hogfather every Christmas, and Lords and Ladies every summer solstice. And that remains the most sensible tradition I've ever heard of, so I adopted it immediately and have been doing it ever since
Hills I will die on: YouTube tutorial videos are for learning things you do with your hands, like crochet or replacing a dishwasher seal or opening electronics. Any skill that just involves your brain not your hands is better taught in writing, with illustrative pictures if necessary.
Today in "infrastructure isn't meant to do that" news from Normal Island, a canal has fallen down a hole.
BBC News
Major incident declared over giant hole at Shropshire canal
Two boats have been left at the bottom of the cavity, where water has drained away.
My banking app just sent me a popup review prompt asking if I was enjoying using it, and someone needs to sit down with the person who wrote that text on this their first day on planet Earth and explain that enjoyment is not why humans use these things
The only tiny positive I can see of the near ubiquity of AI "illustrations" out there at the moment is that I and many other people are now reluctant to share posts if we can't be sure the image isn't AI. Want people to know your post has real art on it and get it shared? Why not credit the artist and link to their work!